- Sach Oliver | November 30, 2007 10:30 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAnn Loomis opened Little Rock's first store devoted to tennis. Ann died last Tuesday of a head injury she suffered when a Chevrolet Blazer struck her shopping cart in a Kroger parking lot. The accident happened at 10:00 in the morning. The Blazer had been heading south through the parking lot and had just turned east near the store entrance when it struck Ann Loomis. Ann was 75 years old. The...
- Sach Oliver | November 27, 2007 3:33 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJennifer Rodrigues, portavoz para Tornado Bus Company, en el Web site de la compañÃa de autobús dicho, "el 25 de noviembre, una unidad de Tornado Bus Company estuvo implicada en un accidente del vehÃculo de motor. El autobús número 5849 viajaba de Chicago a Dallas. Hay 2 fatalidades confirmadas en nuestro autobús, 1 fatalidad a partir del uno de los otros vehÃculos. Los otros pasajeros...
- Sach Oliver | November 27, 2007 3:06 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJennifer Rodrigues, a spokesperson for Tornado Bus Company, on the bus company's website said, " On November 25, one unit from Tornado Bus Company was involved in a motor vehicle accident. Bus Number 5849 was traveling from Chicago to Dallas. There are 2 confirmed fatalities on our bus, 1 fatality from one of the other vehicles. The other passengers that required assistance have being treated,...
- Sach Oliver | November 26, 2007 5:29 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA terrible accident on I-40 near Forrest City took three lives this last Saturday night. The accident involved a bus, a tractor trailer, and a car. Dozens of people were injured in the accident. The bus that caused the accident belonged to Tornado Bus Lines of Dallas, Texas. According to the Arkansas State Police, the bus crossed the median and collided with and eastbound truck. Then another...
- Sach Oliver | November 21, 2007 4:55 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsElaine Fowler, 42, of Monette was killed Friday in a collision on U.S. 49 in Jonesboro. Fowler was driving her Buick LeSabre north at 2:21p.m. when she crossed into a southbound lane and struck a Ford Explorer. Kris James of Black Rock was a passenger in Fowler's car and was taken to St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro, where he was in stable condition on Sunday. The driver of...
- Sach Oliver | November 19, 2007 8:30 AM |
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MiscellaneousOur firm represents the family of a five year old girl who was sexually abused on her school bus on the way home from school in Marshall, Arkansas on November 8, 2007. On her ride home from school, two boys held down this young child and sexually assaulted her. Julie Munsell, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Human Services said the State has yet to remove either boy from their...
- Sach Oliver | November 16, 2007 8:28 AM |
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MiscellaneousBaseball, apple pie, and Wal-Mart-how much more American can you get? Yet the All-American Wal-Mart just recently made a potentially killer toy, Aqua Dots, one of its list of 12 top Christmas toys. How can we as consumers know that toys we buy our innocent children are potential killers? Aqua Dots are just the latest in a list of Chinese produced toys to be marked by the Consumer Product Safety...
- Frank Bailey | November 14, 2007 4:43 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe statistics roll on, mind-numbing, relentless; x number killed, xx number seriously injured, wives widowed, children orphaned, lives destroyed. Public outrage waxes and wanes with the day's headlines, as if the problem of underage drinking is any better today than it was yesterday. But lawyers know the truth. We know every day brings more tragedy. We see the anguish of the victims in our...
- Frank Bailey | November 13, 2007 11:31 AM |
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MiscellaneousEach year we hear of innocent children who are injured by school buses. There are basic principals of school bus safety drivers must follow. The number one rule is that safety has to always be the primary concern. School buses have to have efficiency, and economy, but there is no more important factor than overall safety. Usually when a child is injured or dies from a school bus injury, the...
- Sach Oliver | November 13, 2007 9:42 AM |
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Automobile Accidents"Sport Utility Vehicles" (SUV's) have become increasingly popular. It has been estimated that SUV's comprise 25% or more of new car sales, as opposed to only 2% in 1985. Unfortunately, serious questions have been raised about the safety of SUV's. The potential danger does not appear to have impeded the growth of SUV popularity, nor deterred many people from purchasing SUV's, but has spawned a...
- Sach Oliver | November 09, 2007 1:24 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWhen a child is crossing in front of a school bus, the bus driver is supposed to have mirrors to see the child. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 111 requires such mirrors for the safety of our children. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 111 says "This standard specifies requirements for the performance and location of inside and outside rearview mirrors. Its purpose is to reduce the...
- Sach Oliver | November 08, 2007 1:48 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsUnfortunately, a local elementary student suffered a head wound and the Bentonville School bus driver is on paid leave as school officials investigate the incident that occurred Monday of this week. An elementary student who attended Cooper Elementary School and eight other students were getting off the bus somewhere on Oxford Lane this past Monday. Donald Espeseth, age 75, was driving the...
- Sach Oliver | November 08, 2007 1:47 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe liability of property owners for injuries that occur to persons on their property is largely a creation of state law and court decisions. For this reason, the nature of a property owner's duties to individuals on the owner's property varies among states. Such duties may involve issues regarding the owner's actions and/or the owner's failure to act. Usually several factors and the particular...
- Sach Oliver | November 06, 2007 10:25 AM |
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MiscellaneousIn many accidents, injuries do not result solely from the accident itself. Defective vehicle design or manufacturing may also be responsible for the injuries. For example, when a car equipped with a defective steering column crashes, the passengers are likely to suffer more severe head trauma than would have been caused by a crash alone. The Enhanced Injury DoctrineWhen a vehicle's design...
- Sach Oliver | November 06, 2007 10:12 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA Eureka Springs man was killed and another man left in critical condition after a wreck on Arkansas 23 Monday night. It was a two vehicle accident that happened about 3 miles south of Eureka Springs. Mark Brogan, age 54, was driving a 1994 Ford truck south on AR 23 and crossed the centerline and hit a 2002 Ford Explorer head on. The Ford Explorer was driven by Ernest Henry, age 65, and his...
- Sach Oliver | November 06, 2007 9:54 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsA tanker truck in East Lyme, Connecticut was hauling home heating oil when he crossed into oncoming traffic. The accident happened this last Friday. The tanker killed three people in a multivehicle accident and shut down a major highwayWitnesses said the tanker was northbound on Interstate 95 when the driver lost control and drove through the guardrail, over the median, and into southbound...